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Presents rigorous mathematical techniques for the analysis of boundary value problems for ODEs arising in applications. The emphasis is on proving existence of solutions, but there is also a substantial chapter on uniqueness and multiplicity questions and several chapters which deal with the asymptotic behaviour of solutions with respect to either the independent variable or some parameter.

Deals with the topic of geometric configurations of points and lines. This book presents the history of the topic, with its surges and declines since its beginning in 1876. It covers the advances in the field since the revival of interest in geometric configurations.

Markov processes are among the most important stochastic processes for both theory and applications. This book develops the general theory of these processes, and applies this theory to various special examples.

Offers a geometric introduction to the homology of topological spaces and the cohomology of smooth manifolds. This title introduces a class of stratified spaces, so-called stratifolds. It derives basic concepts from differential topology such as Sard's theorem, partitions of unity and transversality.